"It's an insanely non-rigorous virtuous circle. You want to boil down the current investment thesis? It goes like this: I buy them because they go higher and they go higher because I buy them. Could there be a more stupid or a more profitable invest...

* Trump's call on regulators to consider changing how often companies must report earnings is foolish and poorly thought out. "Good afternoon and welcome to Hurlingham Park. You join us just as the competitors are running out onto the field on this...

Berkshire Hathaway is bursting at the seams with a record cash horde. Although I don't know this to be true, high above the Alps my Gnome is hearing that the holding company is looking at several large acquisitions - one such deal, he hears, may be ...

In happier news, the New York Post reported over the weekend that Kraft Heinz is interested in acquiring Campbell Soup ! Here is what I wrote last week on the subject of consumer packaged goods mergers: A Pinnacle-Conagra Merger May Mark the Beginni...

"So, maybe investors should emulate Peyton Manning and call an audible on investing like the Oracle. Apple has been a great performer, and I see no reason that would change, but the rest of Berkshire's holdings have been mediocre or worse. I think w...

*Staying medium sized long but raising my trailing short stop The big take from yesterday was the continuation of a violent rotation between groups - in the market without sector memory from day to day. This is an example of the new regime of vola...

* Large mergers may be the solution to the price/cost squeeze facing the consumer packaged goods space * An industry consolidation would serve to create important economies of scale, sizeable cost saves and needle-moving synergies Back in September,...

As you probably already know, Campbell Soup announced Friday that CEO Denise Morrison is abruptly retiring. I wrote recently in It Is Time for the Dorrance Family To Consider Selling Campbell Soup that it's time for the company to sell itself to War...

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